4. Jeremy Irons As Profion In 'Dungeons and Dragons'
Most of the problems that occur when making a massive board game/video game setting into a movie tend to come when the movie makers assume that the game series had no storyline/plot or redeeming narrative features to allow it to be used as a base for a movie. To counteract this the movie makers decide just to gut it completely and just leave the name of the game- after all, who cares about gamers (I am looking at you Street Fighter)? Dungeons and Dragons partly suffers from this but it has a bit more of an excuse- after all, in a 100 minute movie how much can you incorporate about the massive world that is the most popular pen and paper game ever created? However, the bad directing, relatively laughable set designs, weird acting from a fairly good cast and the strange notion of having a African-American stereotype as a thief and not thinking it would get pulled up by PC groups does tend to see it drag itself into a quite big quagmire of problems. Irons in the film isn't the worst thing about it- in fact he seems at times to be trying his level best to ham it up Raul Julia style to give this movie some sort of saving grace. Alas, though it can't salvage this car crash.